target/arm: Implement FEAT_HBC

FEAT_HBC (Hinted conditional branches) provides a new instruction
BC.cond, which behaves exactly like the existing B.cond except
that it provides a hint to the branch predictor about the
likely behaviour of the branch.

Since QEMU does not implement branch prediction, we can treat
this identically to B.cond.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
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Peter Maydell 2023-09-15 15:37:00 +01:00
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@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ the following architecture extensions:
- FEAT_FlagM2 (Enhancements to flag manipulation instructions)
- FEAT_GTG (Guest translation granule size)
- FEAT_HAFDBS (Hardware management of the access flag and dirty bit state)
- FEAT_HBC (Hinted conditional branches)
- FEAT_HCX (Support for the HCRX_EL2 register)
- FEAT_HPDS (Hierarchical permission disables)
- FEAT_HPDS2 (Translation table page-based hardware attributes)